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What is Global Hand?
You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar. Global Hand is a matching service: a non-profit brokerage facilitating public/ private partnership. Although today’s world sees many parties wishing to respond to global issues, the...
Why Global Hand?
You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar. Global Hand is a matching service: a non-profit brokerage facilitating public/ private partnership. Although today’s world sees many parties wishing to respond to global issues, the...
Marks & Spencer gives disadvantaged people an opportunity for employment training
Marks & Start is Marks & Spencer's work experience programme for those who are homeless, disabled, single parents and young unemployed.
Western Union partnered with Mercy Corps to increase financial literacy
Western Union, the leading money transfer service around the globe, entered into partnership with Mercy Corps in 2007 to increase financial literacy for families and individuals in some of the world's poorest countries. "Our World, Our Family" is the five-year, $50 million program that Western...
Deutsche Bank signed loan agreement with the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development in the Philippines
Deutsche Bank had signed a loan agreement with The Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD).
Women on the West Bank fight poverty with enterprise
A few short years after the war in Gaza, women in the West Bank are overcoming poverty by running their own co-operatives. With training, marketing assistance, and funding from several aid agencies, the women have been able to set up their own small businesses.
Towards Global Partnerships
Towards Global Partnerships, a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly, encourages partnerships between the UN and the private sector, outlines the principles that should govern such partnerships, and stresses the important role that the private sector can play in encouraging development and...
Fighting Poverty: A Business Opportunity - Report on the 10th International Business Forum
Fighting Poverty: A Business Opportunity - Report on the 10th International Business Forum, a conference report, provides a summary of the Forum's proceedings in respect to how business is addressing the Millennium Development Goals.
Make Poverty Business: Increase Profits and Reduce Risks by Engaging with the Poor
Make Poverty Business: Increase Profits and Reduce Risks by Engaging with the Poor (2006) is a book by Craig Wilson and Peter Wilson that sets out to provide a blueprint for on-the-ground managers of multinational corporations to create sustainable profits and reduce country risk by helping...
Millennium Development Goal 8: Delivering on the Global Partnership for Achieving the MDGs
Millennium Development Goal 8: Delivering on the Global Partnership for Achieving the MDGs, a report of the MDG Gap Task Force, was prepared for improving the monitoring of MDG-8. More than 20 UN agencies are represented in the Task Force, including the World Bank and the IMF, as well as the OECD...
Enterprise Solutions to Poverty: Opportunities and Challenges for the International Development Community and Big Business
Enterprise Solutions to Poverty: Opportunities and Challenges for the International Development Community and Big Business, a report written by the Shell Foundation, argues that enterprise and business thinking must be placed at the heart of efforts to address poverty. The report concludes by...
Public-Private Partnerships for Development - A Handbook for Business
Public-Private Partnerships for Development - A Handbook for Business was developed to help businesses operating in developing countries to understand how to build public-private partnerships that will benefit their host country populations and participating firms.
More Than Making Money – Listing of Standards, Guidelines and Principles Relevant to Corporate Impacts
More Than Making Money – Listing of Standards, Guidelines and Principles Relevant to Corporate Impacts, a listing produced by Business in the Community (BITC) and Corporate Citizen, consists of standards, guidelines and principles relevant to corporate impacts such as benchmarkable standards,...
Guidelines for building business coalitions against HIV/AIDS
The Guidelines for building business coalitions against HIV/AIDS provides practical, operational, timely and relevant guidance to companies and/or leaders in the private sector who want to combine forces in the fight against HIV/AIDS. It includes lessons learned and examples to those interested in...
Micro-Enterprise Online Library
Micro-Enterprise Online Libary, published by National Institute for Social Science Information, provides an online micro-enterprise research library.
Implementing sustainable private sector development: Striving for tangible results for the poor
The key challenge for private sector development in 2006 is showing tangible, significant results in poverty eradication. Donors, researchers and practitioners have been challenged to focus on making markets work for the poor to consider the underlying rationale of market development strategies and...
Joining Forces for Change: Demonstrating Innovation and Impact through UN-Business Partnerships
Joining Forces for Change: Demonstrating Innovation and Impact through UN-Business Partnerships, a publication by the UN Global Compact Office, presents a case for partnering with the UN in addition to listing case studies of successful UN-business partnerships. The partnerships presented in the...
Doing Business with the Poor: A Field Guide
Doing Business with the Poor: A Field Guide encourages "sustainable livelihoods (SL) business", that is, doing business with the poor in ways that benefit the poor and benefit the company. It discusses how successful SL business models focus on core competencies, partner across sectors and localise...
Millennium Development Goals Report 2008
Millennium Development Goals Report 2008 is a report based on a master set of data that has been compiled by an Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators led by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, in response to the wishes of the General Assembly...
Business UNusual
Business UNusual, a collaborative publication of the United Nations Global Compact Office and the Global Public Policy Institute, provides an overview of recent partnership activities in the United Nations, as well as the challenges the UN faces in its efforts to engage the private sector and...